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Xu Jing
Song official who joined the 1123 mission to Goryeo and in 1124 wrote the forty-chapter Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Goryeo.
On a road beside a desert gateway, a camel train carries a lidded chest and rolled bundles while travellers walk along the path; a large sailing ship lies in the harbour at the right, a stone waymark stands by the road, and dunes and mountains fill the distance.
Also known as Zi Mingshu · Hao Zixin Jushi
Xu Jing (1091–1153), courtesy name Mingshu and sobriquet Zixin Jushi, lived under the Song; his home county is usually given as Ouning, now in Nanping, Fujian. In 1123 he joined a Song mission to Goryeo to mourn the death of King Yejong. After returning he finished the Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Goryeo in 1124 and presented it to Emperor Huizong. The work has forty chapters and describes the place names, palace buildings and ships of Goryeo. His posts included Assistant in the Court of the Imperial Clan with charge of calligraphy studies, and Vice Director in the Ministry of Justice.
Life and times
- 1091Born
Song - 1153Died